Xin'an
See also: xīnán and Xinan
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新安 (Xīn'ān).
Proper noun
Xin'an
- A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
- 1989 December, Deng, Shulin, “Sound the Alarm on Population Growth”, in Current World Leaders, volume 32, number 8, ISSN 0192-6802, OCLC 858485522, page 1038:
- One village in Xin’an county in Henan province has 120 women of childbearing age. Except for five women who are sterile, the rest each have three, four, or even five children. The husbands of these women are prosperous, and willing to accept financial penalties in order to have more children. “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs. We don’t mind paying,” say the village farmers.
- 2001, “The Legend of Mt Lanke”, in Y N Han (韩玉), transl.; Li Xiaoxiang (李小香), editor, Origins of Chinese Culture (中华文化的故事), Asiapac Books, published 2005, →ISBN, OCLC 952180098, OL 28206678M, page 145:
- During the Jin Dynasty, a woodcutter by the name of Wang Qiao lived at the foot of a mountain in Xin’an County of He’nan[sic – meaning Henan].
- 2022 July 6, Yang, Zekun, “Police arrest man in killing of student”, in China Daily, archived from the original on 07 July 2022:
- Police in Xin'an county of Luoyang, Henan province, have arrested a man who confessed to killing an 18-year-old woman, according to the county's public security bureau.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xin'an.
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- (historical) A former county Guangdong, China.
- [2020 December 28, Ng Kang-chung; Jeffie Lam; Robbie Hu, “First volume of ‘Chronicles of Hong Kong’ launched as part of HK$780 million, eight-year project”, in South China Morning Post:
- In China, the compilation of local chronicles has a history for more than 2,000 years and can be traced back to the Qin dynasty. The last chronicles to include Hong Kong were completed in 1819, when it was still part of Xinan county during the Qing dynasty.]
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Translations
county
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